Apartment Above Groovy Tunes, Thursday Night

[angelo_wings]

"Squall!" Rinoa was in a mood today. Everything she kept saying was coming out wrong. She hadn't pieced together exactly what Fandom was doing, but it was making her cranky. Plus it was cold out, which was hardly his fault but it was certainly aggravating her mood

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[whateverknight]

"Reading a book," Squall called, from their bedroom. "I didn't have anything better to do, and it beats staring at a wall. I really don't want to fight with you. If you're upset about something else, it's stupid to take it out on me."

Squall sighed. He'd been much better lately at lying about how he was feeling and not saying some of the things he was thinking -- which other people called "being nice". Apparently, he needed to put more of a conscious effort into it again.

[angelo_wings]

"I hate it when you imply that I'm stupid," Rinoa seethed. "As a result, I am now legitimately upset with you, because I feel as though you are belittling me and have little respect for my intellect."

That was rather more articulate than she had intended to be. She had meant to scream 'SO YOU THINK I'M STUPID?' and throw something across the room. Ugh. Fandom.

[whateverknight]

"I'm not belittling you, or your intellect, I'm belittling your way of coping with your anger! I'm annoyed that you take it out on me instead of the thing that upset you."

[angelo_wings]

"Right now you're part of what's upsetting me!" Rinoa insisted. "When you mock the Owls, or roll your eyes at me being a diplomat, or call things that I do 'stupid,' I think that you think that you're much smarter than I am. It feels patronizing and reminds me of my father!"

Why was this conversation going sideways?

"It isn't any smarter to not have feelings than to have feelings," she added. "It doesn't make me stupid to feel things, just because you don't like to."